The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-15
FARM ana HOUSEHOLD.
Sheep will rid the farm of weed
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Sheep will rid the farm of weeds
and increase its fertility.
Stable manure is the best fertilizer
on earth. says Prof. Chamberlain, of
Iowa.
Kiln dried corn is best for seed It
should be dried slowly but the process
should be thorough.
Fork over the manure heaps.
Manure can not be too fine or too
thoroughly deeomposed.
Scatter some of the finest. richest
and best manure you have on the piece
of ground intended for your onions.
Save all the bones. Either whole,
broken, finely ground or dissolved,
they are valuable fertilizers in the soil.
Rye Mullins: One pint flour. one
pint rye meal, two tablespoonfuls
yeast; milk enough to make a thick
batter.
Fruit growers are gradually be-
coming convinced that it is not over
production so much as fruit of poor
quality that tends to reduce prices.
Prof. |. P. Roberts favors a free
AoC Vi EOIbOil-SCCtl LlACclA 4OA COWos III
account of its being a good milk-pro-
ducing food and the fertilizing proper
ties it leaves when fed.
"A Kansas farmer is feeding some
steers of 1885 that have never had any
other grain than wheat-bran. He
thinks it worth more for cattle than an
equal weight of corn-meal.
Lace may be washed by winding it
around bottles or sewing it on muslin
and boiling it in soft water with white
CASTLE soap. It should be rinsed in
soft water after removing it from the
suds.
Nothing is better for a sore throat
than gargle of salt and water. 1t
may be used as often as desired, and if
little is swallowed each time it is used
it will cleans the throat and allay the
irritation.
Cuttings buried in moist sawdust
or aoss, or even sharp gritty sand and
thus preserved in boxes of a convenient
size for handling and stored in cool
cellar, are the most easily and satisfac-
torily planted.
Good Suet Pudding: Chop finely
six ounces of beef suet, add to it one
pound of flour, half a saltspoonful of
salt; mix with half pint of milk and
water; tie in a well-fioured cloth and
boil two hours ard half.
Brown Bread: Two cupfuls of rye
meal; three cupfuts of cornmeal; two
thirds cupful of New Orleans molasses;
one teaspOOnful of salt; two cupfuls of
soda, dissolved in hot water; one quart
/ of sour milk; steam in covered tin well
creased; steam three hours and bake
one hour Toledo Blade.
Steamed Indian Pudding: One
and one-half cups sour milk. two eggs,
well beaten, one scant teaspoOnful of
soda dissolved in a little warm water,
stir in meal until the mixture is little
thicker than for griddle cakes; then
add fruit of any kind desired, and
steam or boil one hour. Use sweetened
| cream for sauce.
According to the agricultural re-
| porter of tine AustrdiDsjaH, difference
/ of fifteen to seventeen bushels an acre
/ in the yield of wheat can be claimed to
/ the credit of irrigation in some parts
of Victoria, splendid crops beside the
/ Murray having been grown on irrigated
| lands, whereas there was quite failure
| in the same district where irrigation
had not been carried out. Grasshopers
and lOcusts have done great deal of
/ damage to the Victorian crops during
! the past season.